<div class="doc-item" id="doc-1408"><h2 class="doc-item-name">to-byte-array<span class="namespace">(clojure.contrib.duck-streams)</span></h2><ul class="var-arglists"><li>(<span class="var-name">to-byte-array</span>  arg)</li></ul><div class="var-docstring"><p>Converts argument into a Java byte array.  Argument may be
  a String, File, InputStream, or Reader.  If the argument is already
  a byte array, returns it.</p></div><div class="var-source"><pre>; clojure/contrib/duck_streams.clj:383
(defmulti
  to-byte-array type)</pre></div><div class="license"><p>Copyright (c) Rich Hickey. All rights reserved.</p><p>The use and distribution terms for this software are covered by the <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php">Eclipse Public License 1.0</a>, which can be found in the file
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